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Law of Ideas, Revisted UCLA UCLA Entertainment Law Review Title The Law of Ideas, Revisited Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28p4s8kp Journal UCLA Entertainment Law Review, 1(1) ISSN 1073-2896 Author Sobel, Lionel S. Publication Date 1994 DOI 10.5070/LR811026302 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California The Law of Ideas, Revisited Lionel S. Sobel* NIMMER ON IDEAS ............................. 10 THE SEARCH FOR AN IDEA-PROTECTION LEGAL THEORY . 14 A. Historic Reasons for the Search ................. 14 B. Current Status of State Law Theories Providing Idea Protection ............................. 21 1. Theories That Continue to Be Useful ........... 21 a. Contract Law ........................ 21 b. Confidential Relationship Law ............. 23 2. Theories That Have Become Superfluous ........ 26 a. Property Law .............. .......... 26 b. Quasi-ContractLaw .......... .......... 28 c. Other Legal Theories ......... .......... 31 3. Conclusions on the Current Status of State Law Theories ........... .......... 32 III. ISSUES OF CURRENT IMPORTANCE ........ .......... 33 A. Conditions Creating an Obligation to Pay .......... 33 1. Circumstances Surrounding the Submission of the Idea ........... .......... 34 a. Obligations Resulting From Agreements ...... 34 (1) Express Agreements ................. 34 (2) Implied Agreements ................. 37 (a) Circumstances Creating Implied Agreements .............. 37 (b) The Role of Industry Custom ........ 44 * Professor, Loyola Law School (Los Angeles); Editor, ENTERTAINMENT LAW REPORTER. B.A. 1966, University of California, Berkeley; J.D. 1969, UCLA School of Law. Professor Sobel was co-counsel for Paramount Pictures Corporation during the trial court proceedings in the Buchwald v. ParamountPictures case discussed in this article. Copyright © 1994 by Lionel S. Sobel. 10 UCLA ENTERTAINMENT LAW REVIEW [Vol. 1:9 b. Obligations Resulting From Confidential Relationships ............... 47 (1) Disclosures in Confidence ............. 47 (2) Confidential Relationships ............. 51 2. Characteristics of the Idea Submitted ........... 53 a. Concreteness ......................... 53 b. Novelty .............................. 56 c. Confidentiality ........................ 64 B. Uses Triggering an Obligation to Pay ............. 64 1. Actual Use of the Submitted Idea ............. 65 a. Direct Evidence of Actual Use ............ 66 b. CircumstantialEvidence of Actual Use ....... 67 (1) Access Plus Similarity ...... ......... 67 (a) Access .............. ......... 68 (b) Similarity ............ ......... 68 (c) The Inverse Ratio Rule ... ......... 70 (d) Striking Similarity ...... ......... 72 (2) Rebutting the Inference of Use ......... 75 2. Degree of Similarity Triggering Obligation to Pay ............... ......... 77 C. The Effect of Idea-Submission Waivers ... ......... 87 IV. CONCLUSION ........................ ......... 91 I. NIMMER ON IDEAS Forty years ago, a then-recent graduate of the Harvard Law School wrote an article entitled The Law of Ideas and published it in the Southern California Law Review.' The law of ideas was a hot topic at the time. Several other articles covering the same ground appeared 1. Melville B. Nimmer, The Law of Ideas, 27 S. CAL. L. REV. 119 (1954) [hereinafter Nimmer Article]. 1994] LAW OF IDEAS, REVISITED shortly before and after his did,2 some in the very same review.3 The article's author was Melville B. Nimmer-the same Melville Nimmer who eventually earned an international reputation as "Pro- fessor Nimmer" of the UCLA School of Law and as the author of the bible of American copyright law, Nimmer on Copyright. At the time the Law of Ideas was written, Professor Nimmer was just a young lawyer working in the legal department of Paramount Pictures Cor- poration.4 His employment gave him a professional as well as aca- demic interest in his topic, because from time to time Paramount was (and still is) accused of using others' ideas without permission or compensation. To Professor Nimmer's credit, the article he wrote was evenhanded and scholarly. Readers would not have guessed from the article's analysis or conclusions that its author worked for a studio that was at that very time defending itself against allegations that director Billy Wilder had stolen a writer's idea for the movie, Ace in the Hole.5 When that case reached the California Supreme Court, Profes- sor Nimmer was among the counsel of record for Paramount and Wilder. What mixed emotions he must have felt when the Supreme Court rendered its opinion. The court cited his article with approval twice6 -but it ruled against his clients. Law review articles generally have a short shelf life, even when they are cited by courts. Laws change; cases multiply; new issues emerge; and more articles are published. The Law of Ideas endured because it was an excellent article to begin with and because it was reborn as a book chapter in Nimmer on Copyright when that masterful 2. Harry P. Warner, Legal Protection of Program Ideas, 36 VA. L. REV. 289 (1950); James W. Falk, Originality or Novelty in Cases of Misappropriationof Ideas, 33 J. PAT. OFF. Soc'Y 888 (1951); Joseph D. Pannone, Note, Property Rights in an Idea and the Requirement of Concreteness, 33 B.U. L. REV. 396 (1953); Harold C. Havighurst, The Right to Compensationfor an Idea, 49 Nw. U. L. REV. 295 (1954); Benjamin Kaplan, Implied Contract and the Law of Literary Property, 42 CAL. L. REv. 28 (1954). 3. John A. Tretheway, Case Note, Literary Property: Idea Protection by Contract- Requirement of Novelty, 26 S. CAL. L. REv. 459 (1953) [hereinafter Idea Protection]; Harry L. Gershon, ContractualProtection for Literary or DramaticMaterial: When, Where and How Much?, 27 S. CAL. L. REV. 290 (1954). 4. See Nimmer Article, supra note 1, at n. *. 5. Desny v. Wilder, 46 Cal. 2d 715, 299 P.2d 257 (1956). 6. Id. at 728, 732. 12 UCLA ENTERTAINMENT LAW REVIEW [Vol. 1:9 treatise was first published in 1963. 7 Professor Nimmer regularly updated the chapter with newly decided cases, and his son David Nimmer continues to do so now. Despite the updates, the chapter retains both the organization and emphasis of the original law review article. And the consequences of that organization and emphasis are what prompt this Article. When Professor Nimmer first wrote about the law of ideas, the is- sue then of importance was whether people who submit ideas to others could claim legal protection at all if their ideas were used without their consent. The general rule in the late 1940s and early '50s was that "ideas are 'free as air."' 8 But this rule could produce results that courts thought unfair in the idea-submission context. As a result, in the early '50s, courts were searching for a legal theory that would permit them to protect idea disclosers in appropriate circumstances. That search was what Professor Nimmer focused on in The Law of Ideas, and in his opening paragraph he explained that his article would "attempt to delineate and evaluate the several legal theories under which ideas may be rendered legally protectible." 9 When the article became a chapter in the Treatise, it retained precisely the same focus.' ° The search for a legal theory to protect ideas was an important issue in the 1950s.1" Subsequent developments, however, have signi- 7. Now in 3 MELVILLE B. NIMMER & DAVID NIMMER, NIMMER ON COPYRIGHT § 16 (1993) [hereinafter the NIMMER TREATISE or the Treatise]. 8. Nimmer Article, supra note 1, at 119. 9. Id. (citation omitted). 10. "This chapter will attempt to delineate and evaluate the several legal theories under which ideas may be rendered legally protectible." 3 NIMMER TREATISE, supra note 7, § 16.01, at 16-3 (citations omitted). 11. Its importance was reflected in the number of articles devoted to it. In addition to the Nimmer Article, supra note 1, and those cited supra in notes 2 and 3, see Hugh Evans, Jr., Case Note, Literary Property: ContractualRecovery for Unauthorized Use of Ideas, 4 UCLA L. REV. 296 (1957); Stanley Rubinstein, Copyright Protection for "Elaborated Ideas," 224 LAW TIMES 296 (1957); George J. Kuehnl, Liability for the Use of Submitted Ideas, 13 Bus. LAW. 90 (1957); Leon R. Yankwich, Legal Protection of Ideas - A Judge's Approach, 43 VA. L. REV. 375 (1957); Benjamin Kaplan, Further Remarks on Compensation for Ideas in California,46 CAL. L. REV. 699 (1958); Harry R. Olsson, Jr., Dreamsfor Sale, 23 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 34 (1958). 1994] LAW OF IDEAS, REVISITED ficantly diminished the importance of finding a legal theory for protecting ideas. By now, it is quite well settled that if an idea is disclosed and thereafter used, the person who disclosed it may be entitled to compensation.1 2 In cases being litigated today, the contested issues do not concern whether a right to compensation exists as a theoretical matter. Instead, the issues raised in today's idea- submission cases involve the manner in which the general principle (that a right to compensation may exist) should be applied to the particular facts of the submission being litigated. These issues concern (1) the conditions under which the law imposes a potential obligation on idea recipients to compensate those who submit ideas, and3 (2) the kinds of idea uses that actually trigger an obligation to pay.' These issues are remarkably unsettled today, and they receive inadequate attention in the Nimmer Treatise. Instead, the Treatise continues to emphasize the apparent importance of evaluating legal theories, 14 and in doing so, it underemphasizes these still unsettled issues. Moreover, the Treatise's focus on theory evaluation has caused it to consider certain questions only as they bear on the evaluation of theories for protecting ideas, and not as they bear on issues of current importance. 5 As a result, the Treatise answers those questions in ways it might not have, had greater emphasis been placed on the issues of importance for today. The purpose, then, of this Article is to revisit the law of ideas in order to consider issues that are important today, and to respond to a number of arguments made in the Treatise that seem to be the product of its original orientation of delineating and evaluating theories.
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